The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
from the dead.” I don’t think so. That so strains
my sense of what is possible. 19
In other words, the disbelief stems from a pre-commitment
to the idea that such a thing simply cannot
happen. In this view, because physical resurrection from
the dead is pre-judged as impossible, the physical
resurrection of Christ could not have happened.
Dan Brown doesn’t necessarily deny the resurrection
of Christ. He simply ignores it, but it is the foundation
of the Christian faith. If Jesus is not risen from the dead,
then Christianity is false. The Christian Church rests on
a solid foundation, a foundation based on eyewitness
testimony that was sealed in the apostles’ own blood. We
have nothing to fear from people seeking the truth. The
truth is on our side.
Dr. Sam Lamerson, Knox Theological Seminary professor,
disputes the claims of scholars like Amy-Jill
Levine. He believes the historical evidence is on the side
of the bodily resurrection of Christ. He notes all those
who died without recanting that they had seen the
risen Jesus.
Those people who died did so knowing that it
was going to be painful, knowing that it was
going to be embarrassing, knowing that it was
going to be terror-filled, and yet they did it any
way, as a direct result of the fact that they
believed that Jesus Christ was God. And they
lived in the 1st century, and we live in the
21st century. And it seems to me that it is the
height of arrogance for us to say in the 21st
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